Berlin Film Festival, after hours walk via Check Point Charlie...

Edinburgh in primary colours

A Glasgow sunset from the working week...

Quality Skandi Noir set in Harris? Yeah, on the evidence of the first episode I saw tonight that just might be what Black Camel + BBC ALBA/MG ALBA have delivered in An t-Eilean (The Island). Lots of intrigue in Ep1, good acting all round, ditto script, direction, post and music. Airs from the 14th

Eight A9 trips in two weeks. It's a road I've spent almost 35 years driving up and down. Today was the first time I took the time to visit Ruthven Barracks...

Chap in the middle with the wee dog is my great great grandfather in Egypt in 1917. Second image was his postcard home at new year. He was a blacksmith in the army, and seems to have been in an artillery unit. Don't know if the dog made it back to Aberdeen (where that branch of the family is from).

Went to Dundee & the DCA today with the remarkable @fi-milligan-rennie.bsky.social to meet 100+ new filmakers from Blackness + Longhaugh primaries. All part of Screen Scotland's work to deliver "film + screen" as an expressive arts subject in Scottish schools. Lots of talent, and a full cinema!

Waverly Station a few minutes ago...

Here's a good, pre Christmas story from Screen Scotland's Instagram account, about Parker Dawes (still in school, showing considerable promise) and his first TV commission - backed by MG Alba, BBC Alba, the EBU and Screen Scotland....
www.instagram.com/p/DDZ69AsqRl...

France rebuilt Notre Dame in five years. Meanwhile...

Ominously looming over Edinburgh, and Scott in his Monument.

Could have been yesterday, might be tomorrow. Timeless and of its time...

Edinburgh's Balmoral Hotel is all lit up...

Got to see Ep 1 of series 2 of @amazonprimevideos.bsky.social The Rig, written by @macpherzone.bsky.social today in Edinburgh, where the whole series was filmed. A big step up from the excellent 1st series. Instantly into the action, and the evolving mega story David has created. Drops Jan 2, 2025

I see this painting every morning, it's in our kitchen, and I love it. The colours, the individual shops, the whole feel for a time and place. Artist is David Toner, from Glasgow I believe, and sadly no longer with us...

Met this fine fella inside Glasgow City Chambers today...

As threatened, a few pics from Tartan Week in New York a few years ago. Karen Gillen was the Marshall, leading it I think....